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Serving the tree fruit
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Contributors
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meeting delegates hear pitch to have industry get
on it right away.
AND THE
Cancellation of last year’s B.C. Fruit Growers’
WINNERS ARE...
Pat Bowen, Tracy Clark, Cheryl
Hampson, Eugene Hogue, Sean
Association Horticulture Forum due to the closure
Kuchta, Denise Neilsen, Gerry Neilsen,
Scott Smith, Gary Strachan, Bill Taylor,
Kevin Usher, Ray Johnson
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of Highway 97 meant the annual hort awards were
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March 5 instead.
PLANS CHANGE
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WITH TIMES
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has given way to the planting of more grapes,
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along with organic fruits, and development of a
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grapes — and, in the background, the water that makes
them possible. For more on the governance of the region’s
most precious natural resource, see page 8.
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